Final Fantasy
Eternal Silence
Chapter 6
"A bomb? How did Shin-Ra find us??" Cloud asked, panic obvious in his voice.
Barret shook his head, "No, not Shin-Ra! Some other fuck’s tryin’ to kill us! We gotta get the hell outta here!"
Jessie yelled, "Enough chat, we got five minutes to get out, or we go down with this dump!"
"Yo, you heard the lady! Split up, foo’s, and meet up at the hideout!" Quickly, the group split up and fled.
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"Dammit, I hope we can get out…" Tifa whispered to herself. She could see the exit now; she looked over to Barret and Cloud, "Hey, haha! We’re gonna make it! We’re—gah!"
Three lightning bolts shot from the sky, knocking the three down. "Damn, what the hell was that??" Cloud stood up, and gasped.
"You’re going nowhere."
"S…Sephiroth??"
Sephiroth smirked, "Glad to see you remember me. But I’m afraid that there’s no time to talk. You can’t leave this place alive."
Tifa grasped a summon materia, "No! I won’t let you hurt him!!"
Before she had a chance to use her materia, she fell to the ground, asleep. Barret and Cloud soon followed, and Aeris walked out from the shadows. "They’re all asleep. Let’s get the other two out before we’re all toast!" Slinging Tifa’s arm over her shoulder, she hurried to the exit. Sephiroth did the same with Barret, and ran out.
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"Shit! Biggs, I don’t think we’re gonna make it out!!" Jessie panted. Biggs shook his head, "Don’t say that! Look, there’s the exit!"
Pushing their speed to the limit, the two jumped through the exit, just as the first explosion sounded out.
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"Ugh…what…" Cloud blinked his eyes open. He sat up, and met face to face with a giant blast of fire.
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Aeris looked back towards the reactor as the bomb went off. No one could survive that… Her conscience fell. She had helped kill another person, something she never wanted to do…
"Aeris, don’t look back! We can’t be caught!" Sephiroth shouted. Aeris nodded and complied, catching up to him. "Where do we go then?"
"Back to Sector 5, it’s our only choice. We’ll have to hide out in the old church until this blows over."
"What about these two?" She motioned to Tifa and Barret, still unconscious.
"We wait until they wake up, then explain everything to them. And hope they believe us."
Sighing, Aeris looked ahead, towards the train station. "Are the trains running?"
"They should be. They were when reactor 1 was bombed, I don’t see why they wouldn’t now."
"What about the ID check?"
"I took care of that. We have two foolproof fake ID’s. I’m sure these two already have their own, otherwise they never would’ve made it this far."
They made it to the train station, and quickly slipped into the train, unnoticed by the guards. Making their way to the back of the train, they took their seats and waited. There was nothing left to do until they reached sector 5, except hope that their ‘friends’ didn’t wake up until they got there.
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"Oww…" Jessie sat up, brushing ashes and dirt off her clothes. She and Biggs had been literally tossed from the reactor exit as the bomb set off. At least they made it out safely…
"Jessie, you ok?"
"Egh…yeah, I’m fine. You alright?"
"Yeah, just a few scrapes and bruises, nothin’ serious." Biggs stood up, looking towards the flaming reactor, "Wonder if the others made it out…?"
"I hope they did…" She took Biggs’ hand, "I really hope so."
Biggs nodded, giving her hand a squeeze, "Let’s get out before ShinRa decides to blame this on us."
They ran off to the train station, praying that their comrades would be there to meet up with them again. They were in for quite a surprise…
~Heya… sorry the scenes change so often. ^^; It won’t be like this for the whole fic, just during scenes like the reactor, where you have several groups to cover, and a disaster goin on. Next chapter, Barret and Tifa will wake up, demanding to know why Seph and Aeris killed Cloud. Biggs and Jessie will return to an empty Seventh Heaven. And ShinRa will unveil their latest evil plan to destroy AVALANCHE. Ja-ne! ^.~